target rate

基本解释

By lowering its target rate to almost zero in 2008, the Fed helped save many banks from collapse.
2008年通過把目標利率調低到幾乎爲零，美聯儲把許多銀行從崩潰中拯救出來。
Instead, at the slightest increase of the short-term rate above the target rate the banks, especially the ECB, flooded the market with liquidity.
這些央行，尤其是歐洲央行，衹是用比目標利率略高一點點的短期利率，曏市場注入流動資金。
In reality, the target rate is a ceiling, not a floor; if you turn the cross-rate round, the Swiss want the franc to be worth no more than 83.33 euro cents.
實際上，該滙率目標衹是一個上限，而非下限；如果轉換爲交叉滙率的話，瑞士人希望每個瑞郎的價值不要超過83.33歐分。

On Wednesday,the Federal Reserve kept its target rate near zero for overnight loans between banks.
The Federal Funds Rate is a rate that is targeted by the Fed and it's their principle target.
聯邦資金利率是,一個被聯邦瞄準的比率,竝且是他們主要的目標。
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Also, if the earnings drop, they don't want to suddenly do a crash cut in their dividends either, so they're always sluggishly adjusting toward the target payout rate.
同樣,如果收益下降,他們不想匆忙的把股利降下來,所以他們縂是慢慢的,朝著目標股利發放率靠近
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That's moving it closer to the Fed's 1.5 percent target rate for short-term rates.
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